May You Live in Interesting Times!

We usually view time as linear. As going from left to right or beginning to end. For example, you take an empty paper towel tube and outside mark an arrow going from left to right down the side of the entire tube. This is the linear perspective of time. Now turn or rotate the tube 90 degrees and look through the tube like looking through a telescope. From that perspective, time collapses or extends; there is no depth perception or perception of linear time. The entire experience happens at once. It collapses in relation to the perspective of linear time.

Suicide as Violence Toward Oneself

The following are thoughts and ways to conceptualize suicide investigation, evaluation and intervention. These are thoughts for your consideration based from my clinical experience as a crisis MH evaluator and consultant. One of the aha moments was the idea to conceptualize suicide as violence toward the self.

Support

When you choose to support something. You are aligning your beliefs, values with taking action. Action aligned with your beliefs and values results in integrity. Integrity courageously claims “this is who I am!